Delivering the goods

Volunteers from El Paso helped deliver goodie bags and Margarita Madness invitations to legislators offices this morning. I went on a delivery run with Susan Guerra, Ed Archuleta and Sam Irrinki.

Guerra said she volunteers to help out at the Capitol because she think business people ought to be involved in the legislative process.

"I do this because I think it's important," she said.

With Guerra pushing a cart full of El Paso goodie bags and Irrinki toting a box filled with margarita glass invitations, we stopped at every office in one hall of the basement extension.

Mostly staffers for the lawmakers were on hand to accept the deliveries, and most were acquainted with the biennial El Paso festivities. They were also curious about just exactly what goes into a "Medical School Margarita."

"They're the healthy ones," Guerra explained, adding she was pretty sure they had vitamins or something.

Here are some photos from the delivery excursion this morning.

Joe Cassandra Cuevas, staffer for state Rep. Allen Vaught, D-Dallas, inspects the margarita-glass invitation from Irrinki. Cuevas, a former staffer for El Paso state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh and state Rep. Norma Chavez, is a Margarita Madness veteran.

Guerra tells state Rep. Jim Keffer, R-Eastland, about the Margarita Madness party tonight. The delivery team found Keffer in his office chatting with state Rep. Allan Ritter, D-Nederland. "I look forward to it," Keffer told Guerra. "It's always fun."

A staffer for state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, D-Dallas, happily accepts a goodie bag and Margarita Madness invite from Guerra.